Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-25

the new issues raised in the South
since the war against the right OF every
free man TO cast his vote unmolested
and have il honestly counted, aud
against the right of the majority rule
III the State and nation. are yet to be
settled.
We deny that suffrage is purely
local question, for each State to regui-
late in whole or suppress in part as II
chooses. Suppression of the votes OF
the black men in the South Is not only
a wrong to them, but it is also, In
national sense in the election OF con-
eressmeD, a bold and successful method
to make one vote in the South count
for as much as two in the North; there
fore wrong which reaches into every
neighborhood and to every voter in the
Union. 1t is also used to degrade the
negroes of the South into servlie
form of cheap labor, with which free
labor everywhere must soon be brought
into competition.
We will continue to favor protective
tariff for the upbuilding OF American
industries and the development OF all
our resources as a nation. We also
favor it for the protection of American
labor, and in such a degree as Will
maintain to such labor the advantage
of the difference between the wages OF
the workngmen OF Europe and Ameri-
ca. We believe the tariff should be
revised and reduced wherever this
policy will allow and the public in
terests approve.
The strictest honesty, economy, and
retrenchment should be required and
followed in the expenditure OF all pub
lie money, and we declare for all pos
s;ble and practicable reduction OF taxa
ton. both national and State. We are
opposed to criminal and vicious immi-
gration Of all kinds, to threaten the
public welfare aud disturb the social
peace, ard to all pauper immigration
and convict or coolie labor, or to the
contract of prison labor by State to
bring unfair competition TO American
workingmen.
The cIyIl-seryice law, enacted by the
Republican party and now so fiagrantly
disobeyed and violated by the Demo
cratic Administration, should be main
tanned and improved in all ways to in
sure its enforcement and increase Its
efficiency. The sole test OF an incum-
bent of an Office or applicant to place
inthe service OF the Government should
be honesty, competency, and fidelity,
with the single exception that when all
Other qualifications are equal the Union
soldier shall have the preference.
We are unable to give the common
dation of good citizens to the Admins
tration of Grover Cleveland in its dis
elimination against and its shameful
abuse of Union soldiers, and the con
slant preference it has shown to the
men who fought to destroy the Union
in It's despotic use of Executive power
| TO veto bills passed by Congress for the
relief of Union soldiers and the Des
| Observation-Disclosures in itsattempt
| to reverse the verdict of the war by the
surrender OF the rebel battle flags in
lis failure to reduce the surplus or de
| crease taxation, and for its broken
molniscs to the people and its ineiii
| Gent discharge OF the public service
We ale compelled to denouncc it a
| hfirg unpaiiio,ic, unworthy; disap
| po.ntmont to the country and a fires.
! Iooi Of the incapacity Of the Demo
| cratic party to conduct successfully tn,
| Affairs Of the nation,
| ghe principle Of interstate com
| mrce law is approved and a genera
| uUnsion law IS recommended.
We declare in favor OF the faithful
! and vigorous enforcement in all part
OF the State of the prohibitory law
The pharmacy law and the county
| permit law should be 50 amended as Il
| prevent the drugstore from becoming
| in any manner tho substitute or sue
| cossor OF the saloon.
We express our sympathy with PEG
| pie struggling for liberty and hom'
| rule, whether it be the Irish people lee
hy Gladstone and Parncll, seeking t.
escape from u longtime oppression, o
| tue Tcople of Dakota brother rerritorie
in this country deprived of home rul'
by the partisan injustice OF the Demo
| cratic party